Northern soul is based on exclusivity and rare sounds.With the advent of ipod/youtube/CD there are a lot of sounds available to the general public. With a click of a mouse or push of a button you can hear the music.In the seventies/eighties people travelled miles to hear particular sounds that you could not hear anywhere else until they were uncovered/bootlegged.Are there any released sounds not yet available on CD/Youtube etc and are there any deejays that just specialise in collecting these tracks.I know Butch is one of those deejays but he plays a lot of unreleased stuff.What are those tracks not available on youtube/CD or any other downloadable format.

More to the point who would travel miles to hear a particular deejay who would play sounds you would never get to hear anywhere else.

Northern soul is based on exclusivity and rare sounds.With the advent of ipod/youtube/CD there are a lot of sounds available to the general public. With a click of a mouse or push of a button you can hear the music.In the seventies/eighties people travelled miles to hear particular sounds that you could not hear anywhere else until they were uncovered/bootlegged.Are there any released sounds not yet available on CD/Youtube etc and are there any deejays that just specialise in collecting these tracks.I know Butch is one of those deejays but he plays a lot of unreleased stuff.

What are those tracks not available on youtube/CD or any other downloadable format.

Interesting question. A few of Butch's c/u's, but are they in double figures nowadays? So what's the chance of someone doing an hour spot of 15+, except someone like the 'Kent' lot playing a find of new studio tape stuff?

More to the point who would travel miles to hear a particular deejay who would play sounds you would never get to hear anywhere else.

Does anyone travel to hear 'new stuff'? I would have thought that was an option long ago, indeed decades ago, unless you're talking about genres such as R&B etc.

Does anyone travel to hear 'new stuff'? I would have thought that was an option long ago, indeed decades ago, unless you're talking about genres such as R&B etc.

I was listening to Carl and Maria Willinghams set at Solid Hit Soul In London and been thinking the stuff they played can't be on refosoul/CD/Youtube etc and do people travel to hear their sets?.Surely it's not the case that everything that was released is out there on comps.Is it still the case that when unreleased stuff gets discovered that a few acetates get given to key dj's to push then it eventually gets out on CD and is dropped.

A lot of the CDs have the tracks in stereo. If you want to hear the original mono sound you have to hear the vinyl.

More to the point who would travel miles to hear a particular deejay who would play sounds you would never get to hear anywhere else.

nope

More to the point who would travel miles to hear a particular deejay who would play sounds you would never get to hear anywhere else.

remember when that was the whole point of the scene...happy days...sadly one downside to the internet.

Other argument being that we all get to hear sounds we probably would never have heard.

But to travel miles to hear one particular DJ was the norm of course...I do miss that aspect of the scene.

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remember when that was the whole point of the scene...happy days...sadly one downside to the internet.

Other argument being that we all get to hear sounds we probably would never have heard.

But to travel miles to hear one particular DJ was the norm of course...I do miss that aspect of the scene.

I remember 30 years ago people travelling 100's of miles to hear R Searling, though not say, Levine or Soul Sam. Maybe as the years have increased, the distance has diminished?

Not sure i would travel to hear new sounds, more like to a new venue i not been to before.

plus unreleased dosen't stay unreleased for long. before you soon find sound files etc.